Homeschooling vs Public Schools:Pros and Cons

The pros and cons of homeschooling vs public schools is, quite frankly, an unfair contest, at least as far as your child is concerned.

There's no doubt in my mind that, in most cases, public schooling cannot match the advantages of homeschooling.

"School is a twelve year jail sentence where bad habits are
the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing
it. I should know."

(John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down)

So how come public schooling has got so many cons?

"We need to realize that the school institution 'schools' very well,
though it does not 'educate'...It's just impossible for education and
schooling ever to be the same thing." (John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down)

The Pros of Homeschooling

The fact is, however good the teacher or the school, there is no substitute for the pros which come with homeschooling:

The ability to follow your child's interests. One look at our dinosaur project will show you just how far William and Catherine's love of dinosaurs has taken us.

I'm going to call on another iconic figure, John Holt, to explain more:

"We like to say that we send children to school to teach them to think. What we do, all too often, is to teach them to think badly,
to give up a natural and powerful way of thinking in favour of a method
that does not work well for them and that we rarely use ourselves."
(John Holt, How Children Learn)

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